> To anyone who will take the time to read this----------->> I am an undergraduate at North Carolina State University and I have> enjoyed reading antro-l for some time now and i finally might be> able to use this list for more than just interesting reading>> I am trying to get information for a paper on the indigenous people of> Guatemala and I'm having a problem finding recent information.>> The class is ethnic conflict and nationalism so i need information on how> the indigenous peoples are continuing to be victimized in government> campaigns against supporters of leftist insurgency that began in early> 1960's>> if anyone has any suggestions or info that might be helpful i would> grately appreciate it!!!!!!>> Molly Kenney e-mail address --- makenney@unity.ncsu.edu>

a good general bacground on Guatemala and its Indians is:
Smith, Carol A. (ed.). 1990. Guatemalan Indians and the State 1540 to
1988. Austin, TX: Univ. of Texas Press

You can also get lots of specific human rights information from Amnesty
International, 322 Eighth Ave. New York, NY 10001 and
Human Rights Watch, 485 Fifth Aveneue, New York, NY 110017
write for their catalogs of current publications

Following are some sources on human rights in Guatemala that I know about
Schirmer, Jennifer G. 1993. "Those who die for life cannot be called
dead": Women and Human Rights Protest in Latin America, pp. 31-57 in
Surviving Beyond Fear, ed. by Marjorie Agosin. Fredonia, NY: White Pine
Press (this only includes a few pages about Guatemala. I would also warn
you that some of the material in Agosin is pretty strong stuff - very
graphic - I had trouble believing that any human being would treat another in some of the
ways that are described). Other sources:

Amnesty International. 1992. Human Rights Violations Against the
Indigenous Peoples of the Americas. New York: Amnesty International USA

Carmack, Robert (ed.). 1988. Harvest of violence. The Maya Indians and
the Guatemalan crisis. Norman, OK: Univ. of Oklahoma Press

Menchu, Rigoberta. 1984. I, Rigoberta Menchu. An Indian woman in
Guatemala. London: Verso (this is a compelling first hand account by
the recent Nobel Peace Prize winner of her own life and evolution into a
human rights activist. My students are really moved by it)

Montejo, Victor. Testimony: Death of a Guatemalan village.
Willimantic, CT: Curbstone Press (written by a native Mayan who
received his Ph.D. in anthropology from Connecticut in 1993)